If Nelson is from a rescue place in America and David is a dog person who got his dog from a shelter is it too far away to think David helped get Nelson in touch with Gillian and she liked him enough to make him part of her family? At the Nerdist she spoke about Googling ‘most low maintencence dog on the planet’ and French Bulldog came up. She was so intent on getting a lazy Frenchie she even asked if the female producer wanted to sell her dog to Gillian. In NYC a shelter help celebs get dogs.